Employee Lawsuit Against Employer

13 Reasons to Sue Your Employer lawkm.com

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1. Illegal interview questions. All applicants should be treated equally within the interview process. Women often report that they are subjected to interview questions that aim to find out if they have children or plan to have children.
2. Unfair discipline. In the heat of the moment, rash discipline can mean a future lawsuit. Employees recognize when they’ve been disciplined differently than similarly situated coworkers.
3. Illegal termination. In an at-will employment state, illegal termination might seem impossible since the employment relationship can be broken by employer or employee at any time, but wrongful termination can still occur.
4. Illegal Decisions about Medical Requests. The rules surrounding medical leave can seem like a black hole for managers and employers because it’s so easy to misstep and gain legal attention.
5. Unlawful Exemption Decisions. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) outlines the rules of which employees receive overtime pay and which employees do not.
6. Docking Pay. Employers have little legal room for reducing how much employees are paid. Discipline shouldn’t usually mean docked pay. Meanwhile, employers and employees cannot negotiate different overtime pay than what the law stipulates.
7. Personal Injury. On-the-job injury is a risk that employers must face, but workers’ compensation insurance usually is enough to cover employee injury.
8. Employment Discrimination. Discrimination is a buzzword in society. In the last few years, employment law has better defined what actions and protected classes are secured from discrimination.
9. Workplace Harassment. An occasional comment or random offensive joke rarely constitutes harassment, but when offensive remarks and rude jokes happen without break, this is workplace harassment.
10. Sexual Harassment. Unwelcome sexual advances have no place at work. When an employee deals with sexual harassment from a boss, manager, or supervisor, they also face the very real chance of losing their job or suffering negative employment action when refusing the advances.

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Employees: Better think twice before suing your employer

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1. Even if you got the shaft at work, it is unlikely that you were treated illegally. The law does not require employers to treat their employees like "family," or to be nice, or even to be particularly fair.
2. Litigation is long, drawn-out, stressful, and painful. The only people who really enjoy litigation are lawyers. No one else could possibly be that sick.
3. You may find out that your co-workers are not on your side. You feel very strongly that your employer did you wrong. You find a lawyer willing to take your case.
4. You may be opening up your own life to scrutiny. This is another "painful" part. In order to get more money, and because you really were very upset when you were fired, your lawyer includes a claim for emotional distress in your lawsuit.

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Lawsuits Based on the Hiring Process Nolo

21.086.4178 hours ago

1. There are a number of factors that employers are legally prohibited from considering when they decide whether to hire an applicant. Some of these claims are recognized in every state; others are not. 1. Discrimination. Federal, state, and even local laws prohibit employers from making job decisions based on protected characteristics such as race, sex, disability, religion, and so on. If an employer decides not to hire someone for one of these reasons, the applicant may have a discrimination claim. (For more, see Nolo's articles on workplace discrimination.) 2. Credit history. The current economic climate has left plenty of people with less-than-stellar credit records. Recognizing this, a growing number of states have passed laws prohibiting employers from requesting or considering credit reports in their job decisions, at least for certain applicants and positions. If you weren't hired because an employer improperly looked at your credit report, you may have a legal claim. (For more...

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Wake Forest Baptist faces lawsuit over employee retirement

1 hours ago The lawsuit against the employees’ retirement-benefits committee of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center involves the system’s 403(b) plan and covers the period from June 4, 2015, to the present.

1. Author: Richard Craver

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Caste Bias Lawsuit Against Cisco Tests Bloomberg Law

21.086.4171 hours ago

1. Caste discrimination has been outlawed in other countries, including India and the United Kingdom, but several immigration and employment attorneys contacted by Bloomberg Law had never heard of claims of caste-based discrimination making their way through U.S. federal or state courts. At least one lawsuit alleging caste discrimination has previously been filed, according to a Bloomberg Law search of court opinions. Brought by a University of Michigan engineering professor, the case was ultimately dismissedwithout an analysis of whether caste is a protected category under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. While a few rulings mention allegations of discriminatory comments based on caste, they stem from cases that don’t expressly raise a caste bias claim. Almost 14 million foreign-born Asians lived in the U.S. as of 2018, the Census Bureau estimated. Almost 4 million foreign-born individualscame from India, as estimated in 2015. And in 2019, more than 278,000 workersfrom India we...

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